Word: republocratic
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Terkel summed up this feeling in his denunciation of the "Republocrat" party he sees dominating contemporary politics. Barry Commoner, the environmentalist-turned-political-activist who received the near unanimous endorsement of the delgates as presidential candidate, put it more plainly when he accepted his nomination: "We are the people who are going to help our fellow Americans smile when they go into the voting booth, instead of holding their nose...
Still, there was no doubt that these were Nixon people; many had quietly financed Republican candidates in the past. One wag dubbed the shindig "the Republocrat Convention." As Connally greeted Fort Worth Oilman W.A. Moncrief, he said to Nixon: "This man is a big giver, Mr. President, and he never asks for anything in return...
...Sometime followers of the Republocrat line: Senators Josiah Bailey (North Carolina), Harry F. Byrd (Virginia), Peter G. Gerry (Rhode Island), Pat McCarran (Nevada), W. Lee O'Daniel (Texas), David I. Walsh (Massachusetts) ; Representatives Fritz Lanham (Texas), Carter Manasco (Alabama), John Rankin (Mississippi), Howard Smith (Virginia), Hatton W. Sumners (Texas), Carl Vinson (Georgia...
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